Saturday, October 18, 2003
Say it Loud
"We were striking terms, and circumspection was needed. I must answer in our old language, our only language, allusive and teasing, that with conspiratorial tact declared nothing and left the past apparently unrevised."
J. Updike, 1965
"Odd the way her grammar occasionally lapses while at other times her speech is fancy, as if she's preaching at a corner."
W. Trevor, 1994
"The smirking man smirks in order to show that he's in on the joke, so he can indulge in the fun-loving-hitman fantasy without an overload of embarrassment. . . . I smirk and smirk and smirk . . . and I feel just as stupid, powerless, and guilty every time. . . . The whole city's got this fucking smirk."
A. Shakar, 2001
"There was someone out there operating in a new context. They were being lifted into unknown areas, deep pathologies. Was the cortex severed? They both felt a silence beginning to spread from this one. They would have to rethink procedure. The root of the tongue had been severed. New languages would have to be invented."
E. McNamee, 1994
J. Updike, 1965
"Odd the way her grammar occasionally lapses while at other times her speech is fancy, as if she's preaching at a corner."
W. Trevor, 1994
"The smirking man smirks in order to show that he's in on the joke, so he can indulge in the fun-loving-hitman fantasy without an overload of embarrassment. . . . I smirk and smirk and smirk . . . and I feel just as stupid, powerless, and guilty every time. . . . The whole city's got this fucking smirk."
A. Shakar, 2001
"There was someone out there operating in a new context. They were being lifted into unknown areas, deep pathologies. Was the cortex severed? They both felt a silence beginning to spread from this one. They would have to rethink procedure. The root of the tongue had been severed. New languages would have to be invented."
E. McNamee, 1994
